Slum landlords are back in Britain

"To be honest, if someone came and inspected our houses, we wouldn't be able to rent any of them."

And with that, one lettings manager, secretly filmed for Channel 4 Dispatches, summed up how we are seeing a return of the slum landlord.

As part of our investigation, we infiltrated a property empire with hundreds of houses in the north of England. We uncovered vulnerable young families housed in appalling conditions; tenants being lied to and threatened with eviction; a landlord who boasted about his "thugs" and told our reporter how he would "quite happily" knock tenants' teeth out with a baseball bat. Read More: